Attending a public hearing on fines for those who fail to comply with the freight tariffs, held on Tuesday (09) by the National Land Transport Agency (ANTT), businessmen from various sectors requested that the application of penalties be postponed.
ANTT reported that it is studying to fine up to R $ 5 thousand the truckers who fail to meet the table per trip to those who hire cargo transportation with a value lower than the table.
For the representative of the Brazilian Rice Industry Association (Abiarroz), Andressa Silva, there is a reversal in the debate. She criticized the application of the fine without the debate on the table being pacified. “There is inversion, when regulating an ancillary issue without the main one being defined,” Andressa told Agência Brasil.
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Also against the tabulation, the executive manager of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), Pablo Cesário, said that there are inconsistencies in the rule and that ANTT could impose a disproportionate fine, which could be higher than even freight. “There is a real problem of transparency,” he said.
Truck drivers
The truck drivers present at the hearing stood in favor of the table. They presented a proposal of improvement for the inspection regarding compliance with the table, with the creation of a computerized system. This system would only release the issue of the Electronic Transportation Certificate (CT-e) with the application of the minimum freight defined in the table.
“We need to move forward in this debate. We’ve been discussing this for five or six months, and nothing happened, “said the president of the National Union of Truck Drivers (Unicam), José de Araújo.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.